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Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells Advance Toward Cure for Genetic Diseases

“Right now, there are no cures for mitochondrial diseases,” says senior author Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory….

Earth Sciences

NASA Captures Typhoon Nangka’s Dramatic Eye Near Japan

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Typhoon Nangka nearing Japan on…

Life & Chemistry

Microorganism Insights: Enhancing Understanding of Carbon Cycling

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee found that microorganisms called archaea living in…

Life & Chemistry

New Macrolepidoptera Species Discovered: A Moth’s Journey

A moth searching for its relatives: it may take many years from the discovery of a species and its scientific description to its systematic classification. For…

Environmental Conservation

One of World’s Rarest Turtles Heading Back to the Wild

– Species believed extinct in Cambodia until rediscovery in 2000

Physics & Astronomy

Mass Map Reveals Dark Matter Distribution in Universe

An international team of researchers has developed a new map of the distribution of dark matter in the universe using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES).

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Gut Microbes Help Coffee Pest Survive Toxic Caffeine Levels

The coffee berry borer is the most devastating coffee pest in the world. The tiny beetle is found in most regions where coffee is cultivated, and a big…

Materials Sciences

Discovery of a "heat-storage ceramic"

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a new type of material which stores heat energy for a prolonged period, which they have termed a “heat…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Enhances Power Monitoring with New Measuring Devices

A constant power supply in a defined quality is essential for the interference-free operation of numerous industrial production and automation processes as…

Materials Sciences

Breaking the Terahertz Barrier in Graphene Nanoelectronics

A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) discovered that electrical conduction in graphene on the picosecond timescale – a…

Health & Medicine

Observing brain network dynamics to diagnose Alzheimer's disease

On the basis of this principle, researchers Isik Karahanoglu and Dimitri Van De Ville have managed to visualize the different activation regions of the brain….

Life & Chemistry

Simplifying Gene Editing: New Resource Enhances CRISPR/Cas9

The study describes an approach to simplify a laborious part of the gene editing process using the CRISPR/Cas9 system: choosing the best components to match…

Life & Chemistry

Anti-Aging Insights from C. Elegans: Unlocking Nature’s Secrets

The roundworm C. elegans is widely used in aging research for several reasons: It is a multicellular organism with a short life cycle and mean lifespan of…

Earth Sciences

One-Armed Submersible MARUM-SQUID Transforms Deep-Sea Research

On Monday, July 13th, the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences in Bremen/Germany received its new submersible, the MARUM-SQUID. The remotely operated…

Life & Chemistry

Astronomers Closing in on Solution to Ancient Stellar Mystery

Almost 100 years ago, astronomers discovered that the spectrum of star light arrived on earth with dark gaps, so-called interstellar bands. Ever since,…

Physics & Astronomy

More precise estimate of Avogadro's number to help redefine kilogram

An ongoing international effort to redefine the kilogram by 2018 has been helped by recent efforts from a team researchers from Italy, Japan and Germany to…

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